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ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1918. Receipts. £ s. d. Payments. £ s. d. Endowments—Current income from re- Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 5,805 9 4 serves vested in Board .. .. J, 125 I 8 Secondary Department— Secondary Department— Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,909 3 4 From Government— Incidental expenses .. .. .. 311 3 9 Capitation for free places .. .. 1,870 5 0 Maintenance of classes for manual inCapitation for classes for manual in- struction.. .. .. .. 38 12 0 struction .. .. . . 110 7 0 Buildings, &c.— Subsidies on voluntary contributions 942 3 7 New buildings, additions, or other new School fees .. .. .. 82.19 0 works.. .. .. .. 507 14 0 Grant towards laboratory apparatus .. 130 18 0 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 252 0 I Voluntary contributions .. . . 700 I 0 Furniture and apparatus (excluding Lower Department—School fees .. 129 3 0 boardinghouses) .. .. 595 14 2 Boardinghouses—lnsurance claim .. 138 18 4 Buildings, furniture, &c„, for manual General— • classes.. .. .. . . 890 10 4 Refunds .. .. .. .. 10 7 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c).. 30 0 0 Prizes . . .. .. .. 1110 Lower Department— Gravel Reserve .. .. .. 3 17 I Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 132 0 0 Overdraft at end of year .. .. 5,903 4 .10 Incidental expenses . . ~ .. 33 0 9 Boardinghouses— General maintenance .. .. 132 18 II Furniture, &c. . . .. .. 121 71 I Rent of hostel .. .. .. 50 0 0 GeneralInterest on overdraft .. .. 31.9 11 0 Capitation paid technical school' .. 21 7 0 £11,151. II 7 £11,151 11 7 Examined and found, correct. -R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Inabilities as at 31st December, 1918. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash at bank (current account).. .. 442 13 I Bank balance Loan Account .. .. 0,000 0 0 Capitation due from Department .. 100 (i 8 Outstanding cheques .. .. ~ 345 17 11 Manual capitation .. .. .. 120 2 (i Outstanding accounts .. .. .. 165 16 3 School fees .. .. .. . . 49 7 0 £718 9 3 £0,511 14 2 Joshua Tucker, Chairman. 11. L. Seldon, Secretary.

TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 191.8. Receipts. £ s. d. Payments. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments—■ of year .. ~ .. .. 1,059 1 9 Proportion of office, salaries .. .. 50 0 0 Endowments - Proportion of office expenses .. . . 33 16 0 Current income from reserves vested in Proportion of travelling - expenses of Board .. .. .. .. 2,787 14 0 Board members .. .. .. 8 7 0 Interest on moneys derived from en- Miscellaneous .. .. .. 87 5 11 ments .. . . . . . . 19 9 Secondary Department— Secondary Department— Teachers' salaries and allowances . . 3,671 3 9 From Government-- Incidental expenses .. . . .. 569 0 0 Capitation for freo places (including Maintenance of classes for manual inannual grant, £100) .. .'. 2,447 II I struction.. .. .. .. 166 4 8 Capitation for classes for manual in- Scholarships . . . . . . 100 0 0 struction . . .. . . 1.65 2 6 Buildings, &C-— School fees . . .. . . 371 3 4 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 83 5 9 General —Preparatory department, proper- Furniture and apparatus (excluding tion of incidental expenses for year 1917 22 12 9 boardinghouses) .. .. 92 11 7 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c).. 120 1 0 LoansPrincipal repaid .. .. .. 341 11 8 Interest .. . . .. . . 219 5 0 General - Rent of girls' boardinghouse . . .. 123 10 0 Telephones, £14; horse-feed, £12 9s. 6d. ; mower-repairs, £5 17s. (id. .. 32 7 0 Sundry small accounts . . .. 114 8 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,145 0 2 £0,854 15 2 £6,854 15 2 —— —■"■" Examined and found correct, except that there is no statutory authority for the expenditure of the sum of £1 Is. on a wreath.—R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.